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2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee lighting problems

66 complaints about lighting have been filed for the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which is 2% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
66 2% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
81,000 miles 59 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
2 and 0
Injuries and deaths
0 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When lighting problems show up

Lighting complaints by mileage, 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 81,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 1 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 3 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 13 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 6 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 13 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 6 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 3 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 5 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 5 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 3 complaints 200k+ miles: 1 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 81,000 miles
Based on 59 complaints that include mileage. 29% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles1
20k to 40k miles3
40k to 60k miles13
60k to 80k miles6
80k to 100k miles13
100k to 120k miles6
120k to 140k miles3
140k to 160k miles5
160k to 180k miles5
180k to 200k miles3
200k+ miles1

What the data shows

Of the 59 lighting complaints that report mileage, the median is about 81,000 miles, and 29% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes.

What owners wrote

2005 jeep has been slipping into neutral since february 2013. It caused me to have an accident because I couldn't get out of the way of rear-oncoming traffic. No major damage was done thankfully! A few weeks later I experienced a rollaway. I went into the sitter to pick up my son. After about 5 minutes of being inside I my jeep roll across the street! I go running outside, opened the door and pulled up the emergency break...just missing an embankment!

Reported at 175,000 miles, February 2013 Crash

At random times while driving, while in park, and just after startup, all dashboard gauges, lights, and power goes out, headlights turn off, but the engine still runs. I cannot see what is in front of me at night, I cannot tell my speed, I cannot see my fuel level, etc. The outage lasts from 2-30 seconds before every single warning light will illuminate for a few seconds, or flicker on and off, and then return to normal. I replaced the ignition 2 years ago from a previous recall notice.

Reported at 175,000 miles, October 2019

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